On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Patrick J. Dughi wrote:
>>
>> Well.... now I'm getting the same thing. For some strange reason, NO
>> pfiles are being opened. The pfiles conversion worked for me for a long
>> time until a few days ago when it just, stopped working. Any ideas as to
>> why? (checked the first el snipo)
>
> I had a problem like this for a while as well. It wasn't quite as
>severe - It would crash once for each new user, and then would work. What
>I ended up doing as a work-around, was to touch the file before it existed
>(if you're in the new-user routine, and the name isn't taken, you can
>assume that you can create an empty file of the correct permissions) and
>then follow through. Secondly, sometimes if you have many users, or
>something like a player scanner, you must be vitally certain that in
>"load_char" you end by closing the pfile, else you'll run out of file
>handles, and the mud may crash, may do wierd things..
>
> PjD
Well i think you are thinking that the lib/pfiles/<letter>/<name> is being
created...Well lib/pfiles/t/testchar is being created but the name of the
character in plr_index and their idnum isn't being added.
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